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How to properly manage vertical offset for ghosts oscillating between tiles in Pac-Man ghost house
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I am implementing ghost behavior in a Pac-Man clone, specifically the behavior when ghosts are inside the ghost house during the waiting phase.
The issue is that ghosts inside the ghost house do ...
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Is there a "best practice" for making changes to packages
This could be answered from a perspective of Unity dev, or generically for programming - either would be beneficial.
I'm working on a game and am using two packages, More Mountains' TopDownEngine (for ...
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Procedurally generated 2D planets [closed]
I'm pretty new to making games, so excuse my ignorance if I say something stupid. I'm coding in cpp with raylib as a graphics thing. What I basically wanted to do is have procedurally generated ...
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Decelerating player's momentum without changing direction
I'm adding deceleration to my player character, decreasing their velocity over time when the player releases the direction keys.
With the code below, at non-perfect angles, the character seems to re-...
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Active ragdoll in Godot 4.5: how to achieve good results?
I'm working on a 2.5D game in Godot 4.5 that uses skeletal animation + ragdoll physics.
I'm really happy with how the full ragdoll mode behaves, but I can't get anything close to a good active ragdoll ...
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Do customizable blank-slate protagonists limit the narrative potential of action RPGs?
I am examining protagonist design in action RPGs, and my conclusion so far is that fixed, authored protagonists consistently allow for deeper and more effective storytelling than blank-slate ...
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Why is it so difficult to port Windows games to Linux?
Steve said said that Windows games won't run the same on Linux and you can't even test them equivalently because Linux doesn't know how to compute how many frames were generated in a second.
Aren't 3D ...
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Need help with 2D player controller
I'm trying to create a 2D side-scrolling player controller like in Terraria, but I can't get the delta time right. If I set my laptop's mode to battery saver, my character jitters (from dt jitters), ...
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Is it worthwhile to use events when there’s only one subscriber?
I'm trying to determine the best architectural approach for handling communication in Unity, specifically when the interaction is strictly one-to-one.
The Core Design Conflict
I have five crucial, ...
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Capsule collision sticking in mirrored section of level
I have a problem with importing a 3D model from Blender into Godot 4. I created my apartment model in Blender and exported it as a .glb file into Godot 4.5. I generate the CollisionShape3D using Mesh →...
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how to implement event system with SDL2?
I'm writing a C++ game engine using SDL2 and I have an SDL event loop, but I'm not really sure what I want to do with these events. I know that I'll have systems that will be interested in these ...
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How does one efficiently render depth in an oblique top-down "2.5D" game?
I'm making a 2.5D game in Pygame with an oblique top-down view, where you can see both the top and front sides of the objects/environment, similar to top-down JRPGs and 2D Zelda games:
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How to model tic-tac-toe as a Model View Controller Pattern in JavaFX?
I wrote a Board.java class which
draws the initial board
draws the Reset button
draws the label to indicate whose turn is it
In the Main class:
I initialized a Pane.
Initialized the Board's board ...
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Destroying the parent when all children are destroyed
I have a spell system where a the spell is a self-contained game object handling all the logic. When done, it destroys itself. This works great
Then I added a second game object handling animation, ...
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Controlling a material attached to a Post Process Volume's opacity in Unreal 5.5.1
I'm trying to create a Slenderman-style TV static effect in Unreal Engine 5.5.1, where the effect slowly fades in as you're looking at Slenderman. I'm using an unbound Post Process Volume with the ...
